WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.080 --> 00:00:02.439 Good morning, good morning, good morning, and welcome, welcome, welcome. 2 00:00:02.600 --> 00:00:06.040 It is time now for our community connection right here on K one, 3 00:00:06.080 --> 00:00:10.240 the one you trust, and it is being brought to you by Arnold Moore 4 00:00:10.240 --> 00:00:15.039 Innee Camp Funeral Home, Wesley and Kiddie College, Get Real Ministries, Tall 5 00:00:15.119 --> 00:00:19.640 Grass Motors. Oh boy, I tell you what. It's Michael Kohli in 6 00:00:19.679 --> 00:00:23.320 the house. He's running for commissioner District two. How are you doing, 7 00:00:23.359 --> 00:00:26.199 Michael, I'm doing well. It's been a long time since I've seen it. 8 00:00:26.239 --> 00:00:30.519 Time. Yeah, you haven't been to any good forums lately, just 9 00:00:31.160 --> 00:00:35.520 three in the last week. And the one you hosted last night or moderated 10 00:00:35.600 --> 00:00:39.399 was fantastic. Really enjoyed that, Thank you very much. We had a 11 00:00:39.439 --> 00:00:43.439 good time putting that together and I'm glad that it came off pretty well. 12 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:48.840 But we got to learn a lot about all of our candidates running for office 13 00:00:48.840 --> 00:00:55.960 in these competitive races. Now you have a three way race for District two 14 00:00:56.320 --> 00:01:02.119 and we got to meet with you and also your competit your challengers in this 15 00:01:02.240 --> 00:01:07.319 race too. But once again, District two is Mike Booby's district. Tell 16 00:01:07.400 --> 00:01:15.400 us pretty much geographically where this district is so it's a little bit of a 17 00:01:15.640 --> 00:01:21.200 it's interesting. I mean, anyone could go to the county website and look 18 00:01:21.239 --> 00:01:26.680 at it. But it starts north of Dewey around Highway ten and kind of 19 00:01:26.879 --> 00:01:34.640 meanders through the east side of Dewey and then pops out, grabs a little 20 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:40.000 bit of Highway seventy five down to I believe, Minnesota, and then takes 21 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:46.079 that directly east to Bison, Bison all the way down to Adams Boulevard, 22 00:01:47.040 --> 00:01:51.680 Adams all the way west to the Caney River, and then it follows the 23 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:57.519 Caney River basically down to about Road twenty nine hundred, follows a little creek, 24 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.319 goes over and picks up Road thirty nine to eighty, and then eventually 25 00:02:02.439 --> 00:02:06.920 ends up around Road thirty one hundred and goes directly east to the county line. 26 00:02:06.959 --> 00:02:12.680 So somebody wasn't good at drawing rectangles, really No, Maybe there was 27 00:02:12.759 --> 00:02:16.960 Jerry Mandarin, I don't know. But it's it's it's it's a it's a 28 00:02:17.080 --> 00:02:21.840 very large area, it is, and they try to break them all up 29 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:29.400 for equal population representation within the county. So but it has most of the 30 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:36.800 east side of Bartlesville in that district. Indeed, now I wouldn't pursuing this. 31 00:02:36.919 --> 00:02:39.240 You had to educate yourself a little bit. How did you go about 32 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:46.280 to finding out what a commissioner does? That's a great question. The first 33 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:53.439 thing I did is I talked to one of our current county commissioners. I 34 00:02:53.360 --> 00:03:00.479 asked him, what does the job entil I'm considering doing this and think I 35 00:03:00.479 --> 00:03:06.360 would like to run. Oklahoma State has some great resources as well. They've 36 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:12.919 got a website where any any county commission in Oklahoma who's elected has to go 37 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:17.960 and take some courses, and their courses on budget process and managing people and 38 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:23.719 Open Meetings Act and that type of thing. But it has a whole resource 39 00:03:23.759 --> 00:03:27.400 there, and so I went and started reading what is it? Yeah, 40 00:03:27.439 --> 00:03:31.039 what does a county commissioner do? What do we do? And you know 41 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:36.080 we've talked about that at all of the forums. You know, what does 42 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:38.840 a county commissioner do? If you were to go to let Oklahoma State website 43 00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:44.479 and read a little bit about it, it says most people think of roads 44 00:03:44.479 --> 00:03:47.520 and bridges when they think of a county commissioner. They do, and while 45 00:03:47.520 --> 00:03:52.400 that is part of what they do, they are the chief administrators, They 46 00:03:52.400 --> 00:03:59.159 are the chief managers of everything that happens in the county from in Washington County 47 00:03:59.680 --> 00:04:03.240 based on the budget board. Other counties, the commissioners set the budget. 48 00:04:03.599 --> 00:04:06.479 Not so in Washington County. We have a in my opinion, a much 49 00:04:06.560 --> 00:04:14.719 better process with the budget board. But that budget board funds the DA's office. 50 00:04:14.759 --> 00:04:17.160 That budget board funds the Sheriff's office, it funds the fair grounds, 51 00:04:17.199 --> 00:04:23.199 it funds the court, it funds everything that happens in the county, which 52 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:30.319 does include roads and bridges. So it's really as it's a financial management, 53 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:38.439 it's a people leadership. It's a service position, and so I'm excited about 54 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:44.519 the opportunity to serve. And I think I have some unique qualifications that set 55 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:47.120 me apart in Michael Colelisle, let's go into a few of those. You've 56 00:04:47.160 --> 00:04:54.480 had to quite a resume there. Well, yeah, it's been. As 57 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:58.000 I get older, I go, man, there's a lot that I've done, 58 00:04:58.040 --> 00:05:02.439 but just getting older, I guess, is what it is. Seventeen 59 00:05:02.519 --> 00:05:08.879 years I spent in the church world. And if you've gone to any of 60 00:05:08.879 --> 00:05:14.519 the forums before or talked to me at SunFest or at your door, you've 61 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.480 heard me say this that I spent seventeen years in the church world, bachelor's 62 00:05:17.480 --> 00:05:25.160 and master's degree in religion. So I've served anywhere from a youth pastor to 63 00:05:25.240 --> 00:05:32.000 a music pastor, to working an administrative office for the Wesleyan Church, or 64 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:42.439 even time at Oklahoma Western University where campus pastor there and served teaching some classes 65 00:05:42.439 --> 00:05:49.600 in the School of Religion. There was very blessed and fortunate to transition to 66 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:55.800 the corporate world and then have spent thirteen years in oil and gas and banking. 67 00:05:56.399 --> 00:06:00.360 Where it's been transportation accounting, you know, the accounting for the movements 68 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:10.720 with truck rail, polar tankers, pipeline moving product internal audit, vendor management 69 00:06:10.959 --> 00:06:17.120 for Phillip sixty six. So it's a vast background that I think really does 70 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:26.800 create some unique skill set for me. People management, just working with people, 71 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.399 being able to get along serve people. And then that financial side. 72 00:06:30.519 --> 00:06:35.800 You know, I've gained so much experience in the financial area as far as 73 00:06:35.959 --> 00:06:42.480 creating budgets, maintaining budgets. Internal audit taught me to ask some really good 74 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:47.879 questions and look at some really important things when it comes to processes, procedures, 75 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:51.800 and the financial side. On the fund side of life. On the 76 00:06:51.839 --> 00:06:56.199 fund side of life. I understand that you may be qualified not only to 77 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:00.240 marry people, but sing at their wedding. I don't know. I don't 78 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.399 know about Yes, definitely qualified, still ordained, could perform a wedding. 79 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:06.720 So you got a little you got a little band that's really good. I 80 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:15.160 like to play music, and my guys that I played with we are actually 81 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:18.399 playing in town Friday night here, so nice. I love you know, 82 00:07:18.600 --> 00:07:23.399 music events and funer Oh, I love it. That's a I put on 83 00:07:23.439 --> 00:07:27.560 some great shows by myself in my living room with just me and the guitar, 84 00:07:27.720 --> 00:07:31.480 singing for hours, and it's pretty fantastic. You guys, you would 85 00:07:31.560 --> 00:07:34.160 if you saw it, You man, that guy's good. That guy's great. 86 00:07:34.199 --> 00:07:39.319 You gotta get him signed up. Michael kla You know, we've been 87 00:07:39.480 --> 00:07:42.439 kind of serious about that to that and just kind of break it up because, 88 00:07:43.240 --> 00:07:46.000 let's face it, you've been under the microscope, as anybody would be 89 00:07:46.040 --> 00:07:49.399 who's running for office, because people really want to see who they're hiring. 90 00:07:49.920 --> 00:08:00.000 And this is probably the most stranduous, I guess, or the most unique 91 00:08:00.560 --> 00:08:05.199 job vetting process, which is called an election and being vetted by the voters 92 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:11.319 at different times different forums and you get together what have you, and then 93 00:08:11.439 --> 00:08:15.560 just plain little people walking up to you on the street and saying, why 94 00:08:15.560 --> 00:08:20.439 do you want to be a commissioner? Yeah, and getting asked probably some 95 00:08:20.040 --> 00:08:26.600 interesting questions and maybe some of that are out of this world, definitely asked 96 00:08:26.759 --> 00:08:35.720 questions that you know that a county commissioner could do nothing about. But I 97 00:08:35.759 --> 00:08:39.279 think people when you're running for an office, they immediately look at it as 98 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:46.159 oh, you're now going to be a politician and you now have clout and 99 00:08:46.399 --> 00:08:48.399 magic powers. Yeah, you know you can. You can move the needle 100 00:08:48.440 --> 00:08:54.600 on something that is just fantastical and that it's out there, but you know 101 00:08:54.919 --> 00:09:00.200 it would it would take a lot of work for Congressman Burkeen or some or 102 00:09:00.279 --> 00:09:03.360 link for to move the needle on some of these things, but we're asked 103 00:09:03.399 --> 00:09:11.120 about them. I know that there were some questions that I received well meeting 104 00:09:11.159 --> 00:09:13.399 people, and God bless, I'm sure ninety five percent of the questions I 105 00:09:13.519 --> 00:09:18.600 got in the emails for last night's form was wonderful. But one wanted to 106 00:09:18.639 --> 00:09:22.200 know what you were going to do about the border. And I don't think 107 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.519 that. I don't think the commissioners really have too much that you can do 108 00:09:28.480 --> 00:09:31.440 now, unless they meant that bringing back the old taco bell and make a 109 00:09:31.480 --> 00:09:35.679 run for the border. Maybe that's that may have been I'm not sure, 110 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:39.440 but yeah, we can't do anything about that. But what we can do 111 00:09:39.559 --> 00:09:45.799 is listen when when you have a concern about a gravel road that you live 112 00:09:45.879 --> 00:09:48.639 on. A good question. But that was a great question, it really 113 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:54.080 was, because that's going to happen to any of the three who are running, 114 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.840 who are elected. They're going to get a phone call that says, 115 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:01.559 hey, my gravel road it is terrible, it's got potholes, or it 116 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.960 doesn't have gravel or And yeah, that was a great question. Well, 117 00:10:07.799 --> 00:10:11.799 once again, being a county commissioner is more than roads and bridges. But 118 00:10:11.960 --> 00:10:16.799 that's what people see and that is their perception. And like you outline, 119 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:22.279 it's about being a manager, it's about being fiscally responsible, it's about putting 120 00:10:22.279 --> 00:10:24.759 the right people at the right jobs. Absolutely, Yeah, how can people 121 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:30.600 find out more about you? So on Facebook? I have a campaign Facebook 122 00:10:30.639 --> 00:10:35.600 page call It's call off for County Commissioner, so you can go find more 123 00:10:37.279 --> 00:10:43.360 out about me there, consistently updating that page. In fact, that page 124 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.840 has last night's forum on it does, so thank you. Yeah, we've 125 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:50.960 shared that on there and want anyone to go and watch the forum from last 126 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:52.840 night. If you didn't get a chance to watch or listen, go and 127 00:10:52.879 --> 00:10:58.519 be informed. So yeah, go out there, and you could message me 128 00:10:58.519 --> 00:11:01.679 on there as well. Happy to answer any questions. You know, we're 129 00:11:03.080 --> 00:11:05.919 on the final stretch. Early voting starts tomorrow. They do you got any 130 00:11:05.919 --> 00:11:09.679 more signs left? I did on my way here. I stopped by because 131 00:11:09.679 --> 00:11:11.960 someone had requested a sign, and I put a sign in the yard early 132 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:18.080 this morning, So no, sir, Yeah, that was one of the 133 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:20.879 questions as well. I do not have a sign in a right of way. 134 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:24.720 I have signs when someone has asked me to put a sign at their 135 00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.879 house or I have asked permission to put a sign at their house or business. 136 00:11:26.879 --> 00:11:31.200 That's where my signs can be found. And you've got a tracking mechanism. 137 00:11:31.200 --> 00:11:35.120 We know where they're all. I've got a spreadsheet that tells me exactly 138 00:11:35.120 --> 00:11:39.519 where every one of the signs are. Very good. You're accountable. You 139 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:41.200 have to be. You absolutely have to be. You're going to do this, 140 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:45.200 you have to be. Michael Cole has been just a pleasure. Thank 141 00:11:45.240 --> 00:11:46.120 you, thank you very much.